On 12 Sep 2011, at 12:15 , LuKreme wrote: > On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:02, Michael Winter <win...@mac.com> wrote: > >> But are there things she should know that aren't that obvious? > > For a laptop a firmware password to prevent booting of another drive or disc > and a LoJack sort of system is best. Make sure and leave the guest account > enabled so the tracker software can work.
I haven't had an Apple laptop in a _long_ time. How do you set the firmware password on a modern Mac laptop? And isn't the Laptop Lojack software paritally parked in firmware? Does it _need_ an account? Wouldn't that be a major weakness? > > If the laptop contains data than is worth a lot of money (think millions in > research or something) then whole disk encryption, encrypted time machine, How do you encrypt Time Machine? I didn't think that that was possible. > and no guest account are the best way to go. This will protect the data at > the cost of almost certainly never recovering the hardware. For most people, > the hardware is more valuable._______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
